In a sensational twist in the Wagatha Christie High Court battle, Rebekah Vardy now appears to believe her agent Caroline Watts could have been behind the leak of stories from Rooney’s Instagram account.
The court heard this came from a second witness statement by Rebekah.
The claim was made by Mrs Rooney’s barrister David Sherbourne at a pre-trial hearing.
“Now Mrs Vardy’s case changed where she believes it may well be Miss Watts who was the person who leaked this,” Mr Sherbourne told the High Court.
He said this was a “radical change”, as Mrs Vardy had previously said: “Caroline Watt is not the source.”
“She says ‘it’s awful to be betrayed’,” Mr Sherbourne said, describing admissions in her second witness statement.
However Vardy insisted that Watt continued to deny being behind any leaks from Coleen’s Instagram account.
In written submissions, Mr Sherborne said that Mrs Vardy’s new statement “suggests Ms Watt was the source of the leak but claims that (Mrs Vardy) ‘did not authorise or condone her’”.
“It now appears…that she too ‘believes’ that Ms Watt is the source,” Mr Sherborne added.
The barrister continued: “The collapse of Mrs Vardy’s case over the last day has been remarkable.
“As of the evening of April 27 2022, in an abrupt change of position to her pleaded case since the outset, Mrs Vardy appears now to accept Mrs Rooney’s case: that Caroline Watt, Mrs Vardy’s close friend and PR, was the conduit by which stories from the defendant’s private Instagram account were leaked to The Sun through her access via Rebekah Vardy’s account.”
Mr Sherborne told the court: “It has become undeniably obvious that Ms Watt is the source and Mrs Vardy, true to form says ‘it wasn’t me, I didn’t realise and I didn’t know anything about what was going on’.”
However, Hugh Tomlinson QC, for Mrs Vardy, told the court that his client’s new witness statement did not contain “any change whatever in the pleaded case”.
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In his written arguments, Mr Tomlinson said there had “been important developments that have occurred” since Mrs Vardy gave her first written statement, but did not explain what they were.
He continued: “These are all matters that are relevant to the proceedings and the issues that the court will need to determine.
“It is appropriate for the court and the defendant to have the claimant’s evidence on these new developments in a further witness statement so that the claimant’s position is made clear.
“These developments are very recent.
“They were completely unexpected and outside the claimant’s control…it has taken her time to process and consider the new information.”
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The two WAGs have been at loggerheads since 2019 – when 36-year-old Coleen accused Rebekah, 40, of leaking ‘false stories’ about her personal life to the media.
Coleen came to the conclusion after carrying out a months-long “sting operation” to find the culprit.
Mum-of-four Coleen was dubbed ‘Wagatha Christie’ when she publicly claimed Rebekah – married to Jamie Vardy – was sharing personal stories she had posted on Instagram.
However Rebekah vehemently denies the accusations and she is suing Coleen for libel. The case has been running since 2020.
Rebekah and Coleen’s Wagatha Christie case returned to the High Court in London earlier this month as another hearing for the ongoing libel battle was held, ahead of the full trial which is expected next month.
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